Arrangement for electrically coupling an unbalanced load with a symmetrical voltage source or vice versa



1942- w. BUSCHBECK ETAL ,271,182

ARRANGEMENT FOR ELECTRICALLY COUPLING AN UNBALANCED LOAD WITH A SYMME'IRICAL VOLTAGE SOURCE 0R yIcE VERSA Filed Aug. 31, 1940 5 Sheets-Sheet 1 v INN/ENTORS WERNER BUSCHBECK 55/ ZZUMB SCH ATTORNEY Jan. 27, 1942. w. B ETAL 2,271,182

ARRANGEMENT FOR ELECTRICALLY COUPLING AN UNBALANCED LOAD WITfi A SYMMETRICAL VOLTAGE SOURCE OR VICE VERSA Filed Aug. 51, 1940 3 Sheets-51166122 INVENTOR s WERNER BUSC'HBECK HEY/V2 ZUMB? ATTORNEY Jan. 27, 1942.

ARRANGEMENT FOR ELECTRICALLY COUPLING AN UNBALANCED LOAD WITH A SYMMETRICAL VOLTAGE SOURCE OR VICE VERSA W. BUSCHBECK ETAL F iled Aug. 31, 1940 COMPENSA 7ED- 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 I i I L 1 20% 30% 407. A; 6' 2 U/VCOMPENSATED NVENTOR$ I 1 WERNER BUSCHEECK pail Y2 ZUM5U$CH ATTORNEY I by the voltage source. pedance into which the voltage source V looks.

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Patented Jan. 27, 1942 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ARRANGEMENT FOR ELECTRICALLY courune AN UNBALANCED LOAD wrrn A SYDMETRICAL VOLTAGE VICE VERSA SOURCE OR Werner Buschbeck and Heinz Zumbusch, Berlin, Germany, assignors to Telefunken Gesellschaft fiir Drahtlose Telegraphie m. b. 11., Berlin, Germany, a corporation of Germany Application August 31, 1940, Serial No. 354,936

. In Germany July 20, 1939 3, 'and 4 are utilized to describe certain features of the invention and Figures 5, 6, 7, and 8 illustrate four modifications of the invention.

When a load being unbalanced with regard to earthis connected to a balanced voltage source or vice versa by means of a MZ-by-pass 1ine,-this arrangement presents a pure resistive resultant impedance only at a single fixed frequency, while at other frequencies a complex impedance appears between the input terminals. This is shown in Fig. 1. V denotes a voltage source, which is .balanced with regard to earth and is connected by a feeder L to a load. W is the unbalanced load and W1 a by-pass line the electrical length of which is equal to M2, when A means the wave length of the high frequency voltage delivered Z isthe resultantim- Assuming the feeder L itself being adequately matched by the surge impedance W, then the equivalent circuit diagram of Fig. 2 is true. The by-pass line may have the. surge impedance W1. From Figure 2 it follows that:

The following transmission line. equations are well known 4 E,=n, cos o W,I Sill a 5 I,=I"o s w gin By the use or Equations 1), (2), and (3),

E= E;(cos ot W sin a Solving the Equation (6) for Ez'.and putting this value into Equation (7) If a theryfrom Equation (3) we obtain:

' "T 0+ (1 3%: sin a) LE z= simplifying Equation (9):

cos adj-2 sin a cos a+ Sin a In the last formula 1 denotes the geometrical length of the by-pass line and his the, resonant wave length of it. J

In Fig. 3,

and i I53 I W is plotted against the relative frequency variation in Y W introduced as parameter.

with

The following dis- 55 tlnguished cases may considered;

Af= the variation of the resistive component takes its smallest value, while the reactive component increases rather rapidly.

(2). W1=2W.In the neighbourhood of A .=0 the curve representing the variation of the reactive component exhibits its flattest course, while the resistive component suffers a greater variation.

If the arrangement should be capable of being used within a greater range of frequencies, care must be taken of the resistive component remaining practically constant and the reactive component being practically equal to zero both over the range in question. This may be attained in the following manner:

(1). W1 is not made equal to /2.W but is chosen equal to a value between /2.W and 2W. Thereby, the deviation of the resistance curve is indeed somewhat greater in the neighbourhood of the zero point but is, instead of it, relatively smaller within a greater range. Assuming W1=1.6W, e. g., a maximal deviation of is obtained within a range of M of lO%, as is seen from Fig. 4.

(2) If Wi being chosen in this way the reactive component obtained exhibits a response opposite to that of a series-resonant circuit and, therefore, it may be compensated for by series connecting such a circuit or its equivalent, 1. e. an open-ended A/4-line or a short circuited A/Z-line. An arrangement of this kind is shown in Fig. 5. The series-resonant circuit comprises an inductance coil 15 and a condenser cs; As can be seen from Fig. 4, the reactive component may be caused to disappear up to a frequency deviation of 35% by means of a series-resonant circuit.

It is rather essential, that stray capacities are avoided at the compensating member. This may be attained in case of quasi-stationary members being used by placing the coils in the interior of grounded condensers. In case of lines being used the compensating lines may be placed in the interior of the by-pass line in such a way that the external lead of the compensating line represents the internal lead of the by-pass line. Arrangements of this kind are shown in Figs. 6 and '7. W is again the unsymmetrical load. The A/Z-by-pass line consists of coaxial tube conductors I and 2. The series-resonant circuit is formed by an open ended M4 line, the outer conductor of which is identical with the inner conductor 2 of the by-pass line, while the inner conductor 3 of the series-resonant circuit is sur rounded by the conductor 2. It may be noted that the length of the innermost conductor 3 is only about half the length of the outer conductors. Fig. 7 illustrates the case of the seriesresonant circuit being a A/2-line, the one end of which is short-circuited by a wire 4. The meaning of the numerals I, 2 and 3'respectively is the same as in Fig. 6. It should be noted that all coaxial conductors I, 2, 3 are of the same length.

In the modifications shown in Figs. 1 to '7.

the by-pass consists of a concentric conductor the electrical length of which is equal to ./2. The bypass, however, may be also a quasi-stationary network including lumped inductances and capacities as shown in Fig. 8. The network consists for instance of two coils forming the .(1). W1= /2.W.-In the neighbourhood of A/2-line. The reactances of the coils are equal to ix where 7'= /-1 and the reactances of the outer condensers equal to 7'.1:, while the reactance of the central condenser is equal to We claim:

1. In a high frequency transmission system for operation overa wide range of frequencies, a balanced two-wire power line, a concentric power line, a connection from one side of the two-wire line to the inner conductor of the concentric line, an auxiliary concentric line having its inner conductor bridged across the two sides of the two-wire line, said auxiliary concentric line having an electrical length which is approximately an odd multiple of half a wave length at the mean operating frequency of said wide frequency range, the characteristic impedance of said auxiliary concentric line being in the neighborhood of sixty percent greater than the characteristic impedance of the concentric power line; and a reactive network series resonant at said means operating frequency in one .of said lines series elements and three condensers forming the adjacent its connection to the other of said lines, whereby the reactance of the other of said lines as viewed from said one of said lines is maintained small over said range.

2. In a high frequency transmission system for operation over a wide range of frequencies, a balanced two-wire power line, a concentric power line, a connection from one side of the two-wire power line to the inner conductor of the concentric power line, an auxiliary concentric line having its inner conductor connected between the other side of the two-wire line and the inner conductor of said concentric power line, said auxiliary concentric line having an electrical length which is approximately an odd multiple of half a -wave length at the mean operating frequency of said transmission system, the characteristic impedance of said auxiliary concentric line being in the neighborhood of sixty percent greater than the characteristic impedance ofthe concentric power line, and a reactive network series resonant at substantially said mean operating frequency connected in one of said lines adjacent its connection to the other of said lines, whereby the reactance of said other of said lines as viewed from said one of said lines is maintained small over said frequency range.

3; In a high frequency transmission system, a balanced two-wire power line, a concentric pow-.-

er line, a connection from one side of the twowire power line to the inner conductor of the concentric power line, a by-pass concentric line havme one end of its inner conductor connected to the inner conductor of said concentric power line, said by-pass line having an electrical length which is approximately half a wave length at the operating frequency of said system and a characteristic impedance which is greater than the characteristic impedance of the concentric power line, and a reactive network series resonant at substantially the operating frequency connected between the other end of the inner conductor of .said by-pass line and the other side of the two-wire line.

4. The arrangement described in the next preceding claim wherein the reactive network comprises an inductance coil and a condenser in series.

5. In a high frequency transmission system for operation over a wide frequency band, a balanced quency of said band of frequencies, said auxiliary concentric line having an electrical length which is approximately an odd multiple of half a wave length at the mean operating frequency of said band of frequencies, the characteristic impedance of said auxiliary concentric line being greater;

than the characteristic impedance of the concentric power line.

6. In a high frequency transmission system for operation over a wide frequency range, a balanced Qtwo-wire power line, a concentric power line, a

connection from one side of the two-wire power line to the inner conductor of the concentric power line, a by-pass line madeup of two co-axial tubes one of which is within the other, said by-pass line having an electrical length which is approximately an odd multiple of half a wave length at the mean operating frequency of said frequency bandand a characteristic impedance which is greater than-the characteristic'imped- 1 through.

ance of the concentric power line,- one end of the inner tube of said auxiliary line being con-- nected to the inner conductor of. the concentric power line, a conductor having one end connected to the other side of the two-wire power line and it free end extending irom the other end of said inner tube approximately half way there- 7. In a high frequency transmission system for operation over a wide range of frequencies, a balanced two-wire power line, a concentric power line, a connection from one side of the two-wire power line to the inner conductor of the concentric power line, an auxiliary line made up of two co-axial tubes one of which is within the other and an irmer conductor within the inner co-axial tube, said auxiliary line having an electrical length which is approximately an odd multiple of half a wave length at the mean operating fre- Y quency of said'range, conductor means connecting one end of the inner conductor of the auxiliary line, the corresponding end oi the inner tube of the auxiliary line and the inner conducq tor of the concentric power line, and a connection between the other end of the inner conductor of the auxiliary line and the other side of the two-wire power line.

WERNER BUSCHBECK. 4

HEINZ ZULIBUSCH. 

